What is a Christian Science Practitioner?
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Christian Science Treatment
The basic service provided is prayerful treatment in Christian Science. Its purpose is to help individuals find the harmony, health, joy and accomplishment that are inherently theirs, to remove impositions and limitations on their lives that may have built up unchallenged, and to restore health, peace, and confidence.
Treatment does not involve physical therapy, drugs or counseling, however it may include a discussion of spiritual Truth as it relates to the case. Treatment involves the specific application of spiritual Truth to a claim of illness, discord or limitation. Because God is the only healer, the practitioner affirms God’s control. Personal proximity between practitioner and patient is not essential. “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.” Jesus
The practitioner’s prayerful treatment reinforces the patient’s own prayers to re-establish harmony, restore loss, redeem moral soundness, renew and refresh life and health.
Because human wisdom is not equal to divine Mind, the Christian Science practitioner does not humanly advise or attempt to guide the patient, but simply to open thought to the divine realities of being. “The genuine Christian Scientist is adding to his patient’s mental and moral power, and is increasing his patient’s spirituality while restoring him physically through divine Love.” Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 375.
God prepares the hearts of both patient and practitioner and brings them together for His good purpose. “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: And they shall be all taught of God.” Jesus.
“God is above your teacher, your healer, or any earthly friend. Follow the directions of God as simplified in Christian Science, and though it be through deserts He will direct you into the paths of peace.” The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany, p. 360.
The effect of treatment is to change the basis of thought to a spiritual one which destroys fear and dissolves the material problem. “The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good.” Science and Health, p. 450.
Fees
- Daily treatment $30
- Office visit $30
- Home visit charges based on time and miles
- Tuition for Christian Science primary class instruction not to exceed $100 per pupil (Manual of The Mother Church Article XXVI Section 5)
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Along with the Bible, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Discoverer, Founder and teacher, Mary Baker Eddy, is essential for self-instruction in Christian Science. “A Christian Scientist requires my work Science and Health for his textbook, and so do all his students and patients. Why? First: Because it is the voice of Truth to this age, and contains the full statement of Christian Science, or the Science of healing through Mind. Second: Because it was the first book known, containing a thorough statement of Christian Science. Hence it gave the first rules for demonstrating this Science, and registered the revealed Truth uncontaminated by human hypotheses. Other works, which have borrowed from this book without giving it credit, have adulterated the Science. Third: Because this book has done more for teacher and student, for healer and patient, than has been accomplished by other books.” Science and Health, p. 456.
